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The secretive company that gets job-hunters black-listed without their knowledge. "I was on a call with a prospective client — a mid-size financial services firm — when the news about the Eightfold AI lawsuit broke in January 2026. The head of HR was mid-sentence, explaining how they’d been using an AI vendor’s “Talent Intelligence” platform to screen thousands of applicants per quarter. She paused. Her legal counsel, who’d been silently observing from the corner of the Zoom grid, unmuted: “Can you send me everything you have on that Eightfold case?” The call ended fifteen minutes early. That moment crystallized something I’d been arguing for years at Veriprajna: the enterprise AI hiring market was built on a foundation of breathtaking architectural negligence, and it was only a matter of time before someone got sued not for biased outcomes — that fight was already happening — but for something more fundamental. For the act of secretly profiling people and then using those profiles to decide their economic futures. The Eightfold AI class-action, Kistler v. Eightfold AI, is that lawsuit. And it didn’t invoke some cutting-edge AI regulation. It reached back to 1970 — to the Fair Credit Reporting Act — and argued that an AI company generating hidden “match scores” on 1.5 billion people is, legally speaking, no different from Equifax." https://medium.com/@ashutosh_veriprajna/i-watched-a-55-year-old-law-break-the-ai-hiring-industry-and-it-was-overdue-43af437c5193